Proverbs 6:9

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How long will you lie there, sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

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  • Prov 24:33-34 : 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that the hour has already come for you to wake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • 1 Thess 5:2-7 : 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then, let us not sleep like the rest, but let us be alert and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
  • John 1:6 : 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:10-11
    2 verses
    88%

    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

    11and poverty will come upon you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    81%

    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

    34and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.

  • Prov 19:15
    81%

    15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and a lazy soul will go hungry.

  • Prov 6:4-8
    5 verses
    80%

    4Do not allow sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

    5Free yourself like a gazelle from the trap, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.

    7She has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

    8yet she prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provisions at harvest.

  • Prov 20:13
    77%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

  • Prov 26:13-16
    4 verses
    77%

    13The lazy person says, 'There is a lion in the road, a lion in the streets!'

    14As a door turns on its hinges, so a lazy person turns on their bed.

    15The lazy person buries their hand in the dish and is too weary to bring it back to their mouth.

    16The lazy person is wiser in their own eyes than seven people who answer sensibly.

  • Prov 20:4
    76%

    4The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.

  • Ps 127:2
    75%

    2It is futile for you to rise early and stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for He grants sleep to His beloved.

  • Prov 21:25
    74%

    25The desire of the lazy person kills them, for their hands refuse to work.

  • Prov 19:24
    74%

    24The sluggard buries his hand in the dish but will not even bring it back to his mouth.

  • Prov 13:4
    74%

    4The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

  • Prov 10:26
    73%

    26Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to those who send him.

  • Eccl 10:18
    73%

    18Because of laziness, the roof sinks, and through idle hands, the house leaks.

  • Prov 12:27
    72%

    27The lazy do not roast their game, but diligent people prize their possessions.

  • Prov 24:30
    72%

    30I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one lacking sense.

  • Prov 18:9
    72%

    9A lazy person in his work is a brother to a destroyer.

  • Prov 15:19
    72%

    19The path of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the upright is smooth.

  • Prov 22:13
    72%

    13The lazy person says, 'There's a lion outside! I might be killed in the streets!'

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4Laziness leads to poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

    5The one who gathers during summer is a prudent son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

  • Luke 22:46
    71%

    46He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray, so that you will not fall into temptation."

  • Eccl 5:12
    71%

    12I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners.

  • Prov 12:24
    71%

    24The diligent hand will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

  • Ps 44:23
    71%

    23Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

  • Mark 13:36
    71%

    36Otherwise, when he comes suddenly, he may find you sleeping.

  • Job 14:12
    70%

    12so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

  • 1 Thess 5:6
    70%

    6So then, let us not sleep like the rest, but let us be alert and sober.

  • Job 7:4
    70%

    4When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.

  • Prov 6:22
    69%

    22When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you wake, they will speak to you.

  • Eph 5:14
    69%

    14Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

  • Prov 31:15
    68%

    15She gets up while it is still night; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls.

  • Prov 23:21
    68%

    21For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

  • Prov 4:16
    68%

    16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Jer 31:26
    68%

    26At this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

  • Exod 5:17
    68%

    17Pharaoh said, "Lazy! That’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.'

  • Ps 132:4
    68%

    4I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

  • Gal 6:9
    68%

    9Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

  • Eccl 8:16
    68%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the work that is done on earth, even though people do not see sleep with their eyes day or night,

  • Job 33:15
    68%

    15In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,

  • Matt 25:26
    68%

    26His master answered, ‘You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered.

  • Prov 31:27
    67%

    27She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.